ceetee
ceetee
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I just bought and had installed a new 120GB hard drive yesterday as a slave HDD on my PC.

I already had a 80GB HDD but it was about 95% full and I could not defrag it unless I had 15% free space.

This morning I set about transferring some video and backed-up zip files and stuff from my old drive to my new one in order to free up some space so I can defrag it later on.

I am also un-intstalling and re-installing some games from my old 80gb to my new 120gb drive to free up space, and am wondering should I do it for fs2004.

Is it possible to just cut the whole FS2004 folder (20.4GB is size) and paste it to my other HDD without anything screwing up, or should I re-intall the whole game, then all my addons?

Or...should I just leave it where it is? Hopefully a defrag will increase preformance right?

Any ideas?

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liam (Liono)
liam (Liono)
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Joined: Jan 17, 2005 Posts: 1092 Location: Northwich (Cheshire) England.
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Found this on another forum

You copy the entire FS9 file structure over to another drive
with no problems other than any addons that were installed
with "unistall" capability won't be able to be uninstalled by
using the unistall program.
All that needs to be done is renamining the
FS9.exe file so they are unique. A seperate fs9 cfg file will be created
the first time the renamed fs9 exe is run.

I also have moved my "Scenery", "Addon Scenery" and "fsfsconv"
folders out of each of my four installs and have a common
repository for those files on yet another logical drive. I, of course,
had to make the approriate changes to the various cfg files that
look for the path to those folders.

You may want to change the registry entry that points to the
fs9.exe for those rare programs that require it to be where the
registry says it is (scanafd comes to mind ).
The key is at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\9.0\EXE Path

Hope that is what your looking for.

Liono

ceetee
ceetee
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Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 1111
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Thanks for the guide Liono- very helpfull of you!

I am still not sure whether to move it or not, as the saying goes "If it ain't broke, dont fix it"

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